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Originally posted by Peaches@May 23 2004, 11:45 PM
Had you read the article you would have seen that Australia was one of the countries with WORST statistics of medical errors than Canada.
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Unfortunately that may well be true.. and it was one of the things that came to mind as an Australian reading that article..
There has been a lot of press on our "hospital crisis" for years now.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/...5120114413.html
I still like the idea of public funded health care... most people need hospitals the most when they have children and when they are old... this is also the time in life many people can afford it least. These two groups of people are the ones public health is really meant to help most imho... and I for one think they are 2 of the most important groups in a society worth caring for.
It does appear there might be an issue with public health systems resulting in a poorer overall care... but problems may also may show up more in public systems as everyone gets medical treatment for everything that goes wrong.. rather than putting off treatment for simple things on financial grounds... just a maybe on that idea though.